SINGAPORE: An administrative assistant with a dance academy credited to herself almost 400,000 NTUC Linkpoints worth about S$4,000 (US$3,000). She used the points to buy food, purchase handphones which she sold off, and paid off loans to unlicensed moneylenders. Malaysian Liew Yu Er, 23
SINGAPORE: An administrative assistant with a dance academy credited to herself almost 400,000 NTUC Linkpoints worth about S$4,000 .
Her employer, who was her bailor, made an impassioned plea for her in mitigation, saying she was young and otherwise a good worker. She credited a total of 391,854.34 Linkpoints to her card over 145 occasions from Aug 21, 2022 to Nov 15, 2022. The manager found that Liew had almost 400,000 Linkpoints credited into her NTUC Plus! card in about three months. To accumulate this many points, a person would have to complete about S$290,000 worth of transactions.
She said she needed to pay money to unlicensed moneylenders and was having"a hard time", with little money for herself.EMPLOYER ASKS FOR LENIENCY ON HER BEHALF Mr Tang said he felt this was an opportunity for the company to"do better" and said Liew was very young and new to Singapore.
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